Category: Theology

Sermon: 1 John 1:8-10

July 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

It is a scary thing preaching at Placerita Baptist Church. And I have so much to learn. Here is my first sermon at PBC, on 1 John 1:8-10. This is a great text to preach from, and there is so much in verse 5-10. 2012-06-10.mp3

The evil and guilt of sin

June 7, 2012 | 0 Comments

I just came across this, which I thought was well put (as many of Ryle’s thoughts are). See the Lord Jesus Christ despised and rejected of men, scourged, mocked, and insulted–look at Him bleeding on the cross of Calvary–hear Him crying in agony, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Note how the [...]

Eschatology in the Last Battle

March 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Last Battle is the last book in the Chronicles of Naria and tells of the end of Narnia and the afterlife of Narnians. Some have said that it tells us something about the Eschatology of C.S. Lewis. With this in mind, I have written an analysis of the book in an attempt to examine [...]

God and Evil

March 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

Jay Adams on reconciling God and evil. Simply this: God controls all things, even the existence and activity of evil. We must remove the word “allows” when speaking of God and evil. He doesn’t merely allow evil to occur. If so, there would be another power, or force, in the universe as great as (or [...]

The enemy within

February 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

Kris Lungaard spent some time reading John Owens work on the mortification of sin and shrunk it down into a book that all believers should read, The Enemy Within. This is a great book. In it he focuses on how the mind, affections and the will are all involved in sin. “Each of the faculties [...]

Herding the Elephants

February 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

Via Herding the Elephants | The Cripplegate “With all the digital ink that’s been spilled surrounding The Elephant Room 2, it’s been difficult (and a bit wearisome!) trying to keep up with everything. I thought that I would give it my best shot to corral some of the most helpful, and some of the most [...]

Aslan at the stone table

February 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book chronologically in the Chronicles of Narnia (although it was the first book published). It traces the discovery of the magical world of Narnia by the Pevensies not long after the beginning of World War two. The youngest, Lucy discovers a magical Wardrobe and hides [...]

Issues with Theistic evolution

January 18, 2012 | 1 Comments

I’ve previously expressed my reservations about theistic evolution. Recently, I was interested to hear some new reasoning against it in this interview with Jay Richards Jay Richards (who co-wrote the Privileged Planet) has recently edited a book (God and Evolution) dealing explicitly with theistic evolution. While I haven’t yet read the book (although it looks [...]

Why God gave instruction to man at creation

September 19, 2011 | 1 Comments

From “Instruments in the redeemers hands” by Paul Tripp, p39-41 (the entire book is assigned reading for this week). In explaining Genesis 1:26-28 Tripp makes the point that there is something unique about God stopping and actually speaking to the two humans he had just created. He hadn’t done this with other creatures; for previous [...]

God’s example to us of being other-centered

September 12, 2011 | 1 Comments

Just a quick thought from a reading I did last week for one of my courses. Often the fact that God seeks His own glory is used as an example by unbelievers of God being less than perfectly good because he is self-seeking. However, the concept presented by the word of God is that the Trinity [...]

Sermon: James 2 – Justification by works and saving faith

August 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

I’ve been doing a homiletics class over the last seven or eight weeks. I’ve preached twice during it and have received valueable feedback both times. I’m grateful for the opportunity to hone my speaking ability and how I handle the word of God. While the first sermon wasn’t worth putting up here, the second one [...]

Review of the NIV 2011 Translation

August 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

I know there are some who watch this blog who would like to know more about how we get the Bible in English. There are also one or two who might just be interested in the latest edition of the NIV and how it has changed and how it stacks up – particularly after the [...]

Why doesn’t God just show himself?

April 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

Atheists sometimes ask Christians why God doesn’t just show Himself once and for all and be done with the ambiguity? If God would clearly and obviously reveal Himself to our senses, nobody could possibly refute His existence, and we’d all know once and for all that He is God and should be worshipped. It would [...]

Atheisms poor theology

March 21, 2011 | 2 Comments

Militant Atheism. Those calling themselves by this title not only refuse, but also openly attack religion – specifically Christianity. However, when we examine the arguments they use to reject submission to God and vilify Christianity we find their understanding about the God they seek to refute is a straw man. The atheist understanding of God [...]

He gave him no answer…

June 29, 2010 | 0 Comments

When the Pharisees put Jesus on trial before Caiaphas, the final charge they brought against him was blasphemy. This was on the basis of Jesus claiming to be the Son of God and His sitting “at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Matt 26:63-66). But for the unbelieving Pilate, [...]

The hole in our gospel

June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

I’ve just finished “The Hole in our Gospel” by Richard Stearns. This was one of those books I had no idea of what I was getting into. Last month it was the free download of the month on ChristianAudio.com, and I grabbed a copy of it. I had no idea who Richard Stearns was, although [...]

Colossians 1 – the transforming gospel

May 24, 2010 | 0 Comments

Yesterday I spoke on Colossians 1:3-8. This passage focuses on Pauls thanksgiving for the Colossians who he’d never seen and on the reason he gave thanks for them. His reasoning was based on the hope that they had in Christ which had given them a love for all the saints. This hope had come through [...]

Our need to see our sin

April 18, 2010 | 0 Comments

In my last post I mentioned that we need to have a greater understanding of our own sin and depravity. Its only when we see this that we will see our need for salvation, but it also will illuminate the depth of Gods grace and may lead us to a deeper worship of God.

The gospel in Spurgeon’s Ministry

April 15, 2010 | 0 Comments

How to find the truth

December 13, 2009 | 1 Comments

I came across this comment on this thread. I’ve come across it a bit recently, so I thought I’d post on it here.

Dealing with Arianists

May 18, 2009 | 0 Comments

This follows this post and this post dealing specifically with Jehovah’s witnesses.

Jehovah’s Witnesses – The new world translation

May 17, 2009 | 12 Comments

This post follows my previous one which focuses on who Jesus claimed and demonstrated himself to be.

Jehovah’s Witnesses – Jesus is God

May 16, 2009 | 4 Comments

A couple of nights ago, I went to see a couple from our church to talk with them about a Jehovah’s Witness friend they have who has been trying to convert them to their church (or rather their cult or religion). We talked at some length and looked at a number of scriptures and I [...]

How do you describe conversion?

April 13, 2009 | 1 Comments

I was just reading A H Strongs Systematic Theology and struck the passage quoted below. If you are saved by Gods grace through the justification that is given by trusting Jesus Christ for salvation – how do you describe your conversion? Here’s what A. H. Strong said: Arminian converts say: “I gave my heart to [...]

Martin Luther on Open Theism

March 4, 2009 | 1 Comments

As previously noted I’m reading through Martin Luther’s Bondage of the will at the moment. Along the way several of his thoughts have jumped out at me on various subjects (not the least of which is his stinging assessment of Erasmus’s book (Bondage of the will was written as a response to a book by [...]

Grace abounds

February 20, 2009 | 0 Comments

The law brings the knowledge of sin (Rom 3:20). But this is not the message of the gospel. Knowing about the law (and sin) is simply a means to the end. The end is to know Jesus Christ. Rom 5:20-21 is an amazing statement. It reads: Now the law came in to increase the trespass, [...]

Don Carson on compatibilism

February 6, 2009 | 0 Comments

The excerpt below is from Dr Carsons book “The difficult doctrine of the Love of God” – a very good book worth reading if you don’t buy into the love of God that is bandied around in many churches and Para church ministries today… Christians are not fatalists. The central line of Christian tradition neither [...]

Learning theological history

February 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

One of the desires that has been growing in me for some time is the desire to get my head around the characters, lives and writings of those who have shaped church history over the years. Doing this has great potential benefits: Learn the lessons great men of the past learned Understand the context and [...]

Gods love in us

January 9, 2009 | 0 Comments

1 John 3:1 says "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him". I’ve heard this verse quoted numerous times to support the notion that [...]

Tozer on Exalting God and transformed lives

December 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

“Be thou exalted” (Psalm 21:13) is the language of victorious spiritual experience. It is a little key to unlock the door to great treasures of grace. It is central in the life of God in the soul. Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, “Be thou exalted,” [...]

Some notes on worship

December 13, 2008 | 0 Comments

Much of the life we live, we live on our terms without questioning what God wants. However, worship begins with what God wants. God is not simply hoping that someone, somewhere will somehow worship him. We are reminded of this in Leviticus 10:1-3 where Nadab and Abihu offered unauthorised fire to the Lord and were [...]

Jesus Christ – the God man

December 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

Yesterday, I spoke in our series on Christ on the topic of Christ the man. I began by exploring things that demonstrated that Jesus is human (which I think should be reasonably clear upon a straight forward reading of the gospels). We also looked at some of the points that demonstrated the deity of Jesus. [...]

Preaching God or preaching Christ?

October 31, 2008 | 0 Comments

I just had a Jehovah’s witness knock on my door. Unfortunately they seemed to be in a hurry to move on and weren’t interested in engaging in a conversation at all. However, the tract she left with me is a fairly standard variety from the Watch Tower. What really concerns me though, about the tract [...]

God calls

October 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

The call of God is a fact found repetitively in scripture. Gods call is the basis of evangelism. Christians evangelise because God calls people – and God uses people to make His call known. However, the call of God is also an area of confusion. A few weeks back we looked into the how the [...]

Depravity

October 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

Having made the point that man is ruined due to despising the great worth of the creator God, I found while writing another post that I’ve never explained depravity, and given we’ve just done a series on the gospel, it is probably high time I posted on the subject. What is depravity? Simply put depravity [...]

One purpose for two solutions

September 22, 2008 | 0 Comments

We recently observed that God has two solutions for the problem of mans sin – eternal destruction and substitution. We also saw that everyone will have one of these two solutions applied to them. However, some think that the one of the two solutions is not beneficial to God and often discard it and argue [...]

Gods second solution to mans sin – substitution

September 16, 2008 | 0 Comments

We’ve spent two posts (1, 2) looking at hell – the first and default solution to mans sin and evil. This puts the good news of the gospel into stark relief and helps us understand why it is called good news. Understanding that hell is the default solution is important. As we saw, sin is [...]

Gods first solution to mans sin – hell – part 2

September 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

We saw at the end of the last post that this punishment was called eternal destruction (2 Thess 1:6-10). This is a good starting point. Here on earth while we live, we see much of the grace and mercy of God. In fact scripture says that the kindness of God – which is evident – [...]

Gods first solution to mans sin – hell – part 1

September 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

As we've seen, the fundamental problem of sin can be described as man exchanging the glory of God for something other than God. The full comprehension of this failure is somewhat masked as we are spiritual beings clothed in matter. However, as we saw, God is the highest and most valuable thing in the universe [...]

Mans problem

September 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

Man has one problem or issue that God has two solutions to. Every human being who ever lives will have one of those two solutions applied to them. The solutions are entirely just (i.e. right) and can in no way be debated or discussed and there is no way to vary the solution applied to [...]

Who is this great God?

September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

Over the last few weeks we've looked at who God is based on some (not all) of the attributes ascribed to Him in the Bible. We've seen that God is spirit, that He is self existent, all powerful, knows all things, is present everywhere, unchanging, holy, just, love (yes, God is love) and absolutely free [...]

Who is this God? – Part 10

September 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

The final aspect of the character of God that I want to look at is His freedom. This is something we don’t often think about, but the freedom of God is absolute. Many times we think of God as being there to serve us, but this is not what we read in the Bible. There [...]

Who is this God? – Part 9

September 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

The justice of God renders judgement in accordance with the fact that we are all “dead in the trespasses and sins” (Eph 2:1) – namely that we will be accordingly punished. The love of God is the attribute of God that caused Him to do something about this situation. What did God do about this [...]

Who is this God? – Part 8

August 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

The justice of God is that attribute of God which emanates from His holiness that is concerned with legalities and the implementation of righteousness or the punishment of the lack of righteousness. The justice of God is seen throughout scripture in passages such as Col 3:25: “For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the [...]

Who’s afraid of the Holy Spirit?

August 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

I’ve been reading parts of this book for a few months now and I’m loving it. I’m taking my time with it because a) it is a demanding book to read and b) the points in it are very important and worth thoroughly digesting and internalising. I was initially made aware of this book when [...]

Who is this God? – Part 7

August 26, 2008 | 0 Comments

Now we start coming to the pointy end of who God is – not because it is difficult to understand, but rather that most people don’t like to hear it. Everything we have covered so far paints the picture of the "Godhood" of God – His bigness, power, knowledge, etc. What we will be dealing [...]

Who is this God? – Part 6

August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments

God is immutable – i.e. he doesn’t change. There are some clear statements in scripture that teach this: "I, the Lord do not change, therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed" (Mal 3:6) The fact that God had made promises to Israel and doesn’t change was the key thing that kept Israel from [...]

Who is this God? – Part 5

August 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

In addition to being omnipotent and omniscient, God is also omnipresent – this means that He is not limited by time and space. In scripture, there are two primary ways this is represented. God is everywhere We see this possibly most clearly in Ps 139:7-12. In this passage the Psalmist goes through several locations and [...]

Sinners in the hands of an angry God

August 16, 2008 | 1 Comments

Just over 250 years ago, Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon called “sinners in the hands of an angry God”. The sermon is a stunner. It was originally intended to make a hard hearted congregation take stock of itself. Today, in an age where the love of God is often preached, it is refreshing to read [...]

Things you should learn

August 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

Mark Driscoll recently got the chance to sit down and ask J I Packer what theological issues he would recommend young Christian leaders to study in order to be prepared for the next 50 years. What follows is a direct rip-n-republish from Marks original blog post here (with pic). You (and I) should learn these [...]

Who is this God? – Part 4

August 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

Continuing the "omni’s" with the Omniscience – or all knowingness of God. For simplicity I’m going to divide this into three sections – God knows the present, God knows the future and God knows us intimately. God knows the present This sounds pretty simple, but I want to point out one implication of this. In [...]

Who is this God? – Part 3

August 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

This post could be titled "the omni’s". There are three (well known) attributes of God which all start with omni – which simply means "all" or "universally". The three are omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing) and omnipresent (everywhere at once). Lets start with omnipotent. Firstly there are some things that God cannot do. For [...]

Who is this God? – Part 2

August 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

God is self-existent. This means that he depends on nothing to exist. He just is. We read this from several passages in scripture starting with His description of Himself in Exodus 3:14 after Moses asks God who he should explain Him as: "God said to Moses "I am who I am"" This phrase is not [...]

Who is this God? – Part 1

August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments

The core message of the Gospel is to know God – not just know of God, but to know Him – in a similar way that you know your best friend. To help us do that, there are some foundational things that we need to know about Him. We cannot relate to someone if we [...]

The promise of the Holy Spirit

June 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

This morning I did my second sermon this year. I was given this opportunity a couple of weeks ago (I only had one other sermon scheduled this year), so I'm thankful for this opportunity.

Language changes require translation changes

June 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

I’ve been studying for my message tomorrow today and came across an old commentary note that was talking about the word "dwelling place" in John 14:2: In my Fathers house are many rooms (ESV) The old King James translates this In my Fathers house are many mansions The use of the word "mansions" was introduced [...]

Worship or curse

May 24, 2008 | 1 Comments

I’m still here. Its been a quiet week on the blogging from here, with having to make some changes to the site and the normal work load, I’ve been a little distracted. I still have two posts on reasons for the law that I want to get posted, but that can wait until next week. [...]

How to approach God from the Law

May 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

This is part 4 in a series on five reasons for the law. The reasons are given here and the previous article – The righteousness of God in the law - is here. One interesting artifact of the old testament is the places where Israel could worship the Lord. There were two main locations given – [...]

I go to prepare a place for you

May 12, 2008 | 1 Comments

When we read this passage in John 14:2-3 we could be inclined to think of a mansion with Jesus rushing around fluffing pillows and making sure the furniture is in order before His guests arrive. I am going away to prepare a place for you (John 14:2) However, when we consider the new Jerusalem in [...]

The righteousness of God in the law

May 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

This is the third in the series on the reasons for the law. Check the intro here and the second instalment here. The origin of the law is with God. We hear it first communicated to man fully through the audible voice of God: “And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord [...]

The people of the Law

May 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

If we look at the founding document is Israel – the book of the covenant, we notice something interesting which we can see in the first four and last 13 verses. The first four verses really reiterate the first two or three commandments. They begin with laws about idolatry, which serve to uphold the holiness [...]

Reasons for the law

May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments

Recently we covered off the question of why the law was given and we came up with five reasons which I'll cover over a few blog posts. This is not necessarily an exhaustive list, but it is the list we discussed. The five reasons are: To separate the people of God as a holy (separate) [...]

Introduction to the book of the covenant

May 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

One of the things we covered a few weeks ago in our study (that I haven’t posted up here) is the book of the covenant, however, lets take a quick look here as the book of the covenant has some clues in it around the purpose of the law which will be the topic of [...]

How Moses dealt with idolatry

May 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

After Moses interceded for Israel, he went down the mountain to deal with the idolatry that Israel were indulging in (Ex 32). Bearing in mind that Moses had been in the presence of God for more than a month, He is coming down the mountain with a fuller understanding of the greatness of God than [...]

Propitiation and Faith

April 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

Note that this follows the previous post on propitiation (i.e. appeasement of wrath). We mentioned last time that propitiation means that the righteous wrath of God toward sinners has been appeased and that propitiation was done in Christ. It is this propitiation that glorifies God by making the exhibition of many of His attributes possible. [...]

Appeasement of wrath and the glory of God

April 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

On Tuesday I made the point that the sacrifice of the Passover lamb (and Christ) was not merely for our benefit, but was primarily for the glory of God. The Passover is a type or picture of what Christ did on the cross. And as such there are again parallels between what the Passover sacrifice [...]

Passover and Christ

April 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

We’ve seen that the final plague prior to Israel leaving Egypt was death of the first born, which was a representative judgement on the firstborn children who reside in the land of Egypt – and that the judgement applies to both Israelites and Egyptians as all had sinned (and today all have sinned). To provide [...]

Exodus – The tenth plague and Passover

April 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

The Passover was a feast initiated while Israel was in Egypt. Last week we saw that the plagues brought on Egypt served three distinct purposes including humiliating the false gods that Egypt worshipped. This week we turn our attention to the tenth plague and the Passover sacrifice. This is Christian theology 101, but it is [...]

Magicians and Miracles in Egypt – Exodus

April 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

While many in the west deny the supernatural altogether, we must be careful not to do the same. The Lord interacts with His creation supernaturally as well as through natural means. Moreover, there is a supernatural element at work today that we need to be aware of. One of the devils greatest achievements is convincing [...]

The exodus – why plagues?

April 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

This week we spent some time thinking through the exodus of Israel from Egypt. I wanted to provide some of the thinking around the purpose of the exodus here for the sake of posterity . Removal from Egypt – a problem in its own right Right from the start the Lord had stated that he [...]

Apologetics and evangelism

February 6, 2008 | 24 Comments

I’ve been meditating for quite some time on 1 Cor 1:17-25, and tonight I came across another verse that cross references it beautifully and thought that I’d share it. Let me start by stating that the premise here is evangelism. I’d also add that I’m no shining example of this, in fact this is in [...]

Hollywood and God

January 6, 2008 | 0 Comments

If you love the Lord and have a weakness for movies, the videos on this site should be helpful. Personally, my family has found this challenging, and this site was a great way to get us over the edge and dealing with our problem error. For us the thing that locked it was that if [...]

Summer Listening – Jesus on the cross

January 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

I was walking along the beach a couple of days ago and I was listening to this sermon while I was walking. If you want a refresher of what Jesus went through on the cross, why we have the cross as a symbol of Christ and what Jesus accomplished on the cross, then you should [...]

God, evil and free will

December 3, 2007 | 0 Comments

This is a big subject. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but even so, I don’t have all the answers, so comments and discussion is welcome . Why is evil in the world? In last weekend’s sermon, I said that evil serves a purpose. Specifically I said that this purpose was more important [...]

God is good

November 25, 2007 | 0 Comments

This morning I had the privilege of speaking at our local church on the subject of God is good.

Jesus is the door

November 20, 2007 | 0 Comments

Following from my post last week, and my previous one on the subject, I had a thought yesterday that adds to to getting the word of God out electronically for no cost. Jesus said “I am the door of the sheep… If anyone enters by me he will be saved and will go in and [...]

The purpose of theology

November 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

After the discussion that Dom and I had a couple of weeks ago I was reminded of the purpose of theology. It is critical as believers that we keep things in perspective, and it is easy to debate over things such as salvation while missing the point of what we are discussing entirely. The point [...]

Four and a half point Calvinism and the Gospel

October 9, 2007 | 0 Comments

If you’ve done study into the details of salvation (sometimes referred to as soteriology) you’ll know that the Synod of Dort in 1619 came up with five affirmations of Calvinism, commonly known as the “Five points of Calvinism”. The five points can be remembered using the acrostic TULIP: T = Total Depravity of man U [...]

Purity in Worship

September 22, 2007 | 0 Comments

I was just reading of Matthews account of Jesus walking on water in Matt 14:22-33 and found this statement: And those in the boat worshipped him, saying: “Truly you are the Son of God” I was struck by the simplicity of the moment. There was no music, no prayer, no hype, no grand words, just [...]

We are not tempted by God – James 1:16-18

September 19, 2007 | 0 Comments

Principle God cannot tempt us because He is impervious to temptation and therefore He doesn’t tempt anyone Everything good is from God God does not change God brought us forth to be a kind of first fruit Review – What did we cover last week and how did it relate to temptation? What did it [...]

Its God’s word – read it.

June 18, 2007 | 0 Comments

Last sunday I had the privilege of speaking from Psalm 119:1-24. Psalm 119 is an interesting Psalm to study as it is an acrostic in Hebrew – split into 22 sections of eight verses each, with each of the eight verses in each section starting with the same hebrew letter of the alphabet.

Experience or Scripture?

May 20, 2007 | 0 Comments

When I was preparing for a study a few weeks ago I came across 2 Peter 2:16-21. In this passage Peter refers back to the experience he, James and John had when Jesus was transfigured before them (Matt 17:1-13). Peter recounts what he saw: “… we were eye witnesses of his majesty. For when he [...]

Jesus demonstrated his deity – part 2

May 10, 2007 | 0 Comments

We saw that Jesus proved his deity by demonstrating what he knew – that he was not constrained in his knowledge as we are constrained. We can also see that Jesus demonstrated his deity by forgiving people of their sins. There are two occurrences where he did this in the gospels, but for this study, [...]

Jesus Christ is God – part 2

May 5, 2007 | 0 Comments

Having seen that the Old Testament clearly showed that the Messiah would be God himself, we now move on to see what Jesus said about himself. Again, we covered this in a little detail in last weeks study, so we will start there and build it out a little. If we start again in John [...]

Jesus demonstrated his deity – part 1

May 5, 2007 | 0 Comments

We’ve seen that the Old Testament claimed that the messiah would be God and we’ve also seen that Jesus himself claimed to be God, but not only was it something that Jesus verbally claimed, but something that he demonstrated as well. There were a number of ways Jesus demonstrated his deity and confirmed his claim, [...]

Jesus Christ is God – part 1

May 1, 2007 | 0 Comments

This week we started to take a look at the deity of Christ – that is the fact that Jesus Christ is God. We started this study by looking at what the Old Testament says about the Messiah and looking at how the New Testament references these passages with regard to Christ. Note that this [...]

The pre-existence of Christ – part 2

April 28, 2007 | 0 Comments

Finding Old Testament evidence of Christ is not quite as trivial as finding it in the New Testament, however it is there and its not hard to see. Firstly, we often see what is called a theophany - a visible manifestation of God in the old testament . We also see what is called a Christophany [...]

The pre-existence of Christ – part 1

April 27, 2007 | 0 Comments

If we were to ask any adherent to Islam or even new age philosophies if they loved God, they would say yes. Of course their understanding of God is completely different to the Christian, but this question still yields the same answer. Were we to ask them “Do you love Jesus Christ?” the answer would [...]